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...most ardent admirers often prefer to remember gruff, octogenarian Colonel Ewart Scott Grogan as he was in the old days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape...
Last week, with Kenya's political future still dimmed as a result of his remarks, Ewart Scott Grogan gave up the seat he had held on the legislative council since 1929. Kenya conservatism's most flamboyant defender was quitting on a snort of triumph, even though it was apt to be short-lived. "I had to do something positive amid all that yapping and whispering," he said. "I did it, and now I have retired...
Many Britons asked themselves last week whether it was not time to go back and offer genuine democratic self-government to the Cypriots. Britain has long acknowledged that Cyprus is Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty...
...This half-crazy and . . . ridiculous old man." "That half-mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything, and be a Dictator." Thus, on two occasions, did Queen Victoria fulminate against her pet hate, Liberal William Ewart Gladstone. In ferocious agreement with the Queen were the House of Lords, the City magnates and all good Tories-down to the anonymous songster who bellowed from the music-hall boards that Gladstone
...less intense. He came there as one of the earliest professional white hunters and his TALES OF THE AFRICAN FRONTIER [written with Daniel Mannix; 308 pp.; Harper; $4) is highly satisfying armchair-adventure stuff. Hunter's heroes are African pioneers. A good example of the breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed of by Cecil Rhodes. He made it in a year after hardships that make climbing Everest seem like a lark. Driving...